Absolutism

What was the consequence of Prince Francis Rakoczy rebellion for Habsburg rule?

Hungary was never fully integrated into a centralized, absolute Habsburg state.

In music, the baroque style reached its culmination in the work of

Johann Sebastian Bach

The Glorious Revolution and the concept of representative government found its best in the Second Treatise of Civil Government by

John Locke

How did the Peace of Westphalia mark a turning point in European history?

Large scale armed conflicts over religious faith came to an end

The final collapse of Spain as a great military power was symbolized by the defeat at the Battle of Rocroi and the resulting Treaty of

The pyrenees

The English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes held that

The power of the ruler was absolute and prevented civil war

Why did the English government arrive at a crisis situation by 1640?

Charles I imposed unwelcome laws and reforms on the country

in return for financial support, what did Charles II of England secretly promise Louis XIV of France?

English laws against Catholics would be eased and England gradually re-catholicize

What was the outcome of the heightened central control established by absolutist and constitutional governments?

Growth in armed forces

In Eastern Europe between 1500 and 1650, the growth of commercial agriculture was accompanied by the:

Growth of a class of small landowners

How did Cardinal Richelieu increase the power of the centralized french state?

He extended the use of intendants, commissioners for each of France's 32 districts

How did the Peace of Utrecht resolve the problem of succession to the Spanish throne?

Louis XIV of France's grandson, Philip, was placed on the French throne with the agreement that the French and Spanish thrones would never be united

Mercantilist theory postulated that

Mercantilist theory postulated that

Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate was ultimately a

Military dictatorship

What was one of the social consequences of Peter the Great's bureaucratic system?

People on non-noble origin were able to rise to high positions

Typically French Classicism

Presented subject matter associated with the classical antiquity

French foreign policy under Cardinal Richelieu focused primarily on the

Prevention of the Habsburgs from unifying the territories surrounding France

the junkers were

Prussian nobles who reluctantly worked with Frederick William to consolidate the Prussian state

What mistaken belief did the Count-Duke of Olivares hold that brought disaster to Spain?

Spain must return to the imperial tradition of the 16th century in order to solve its economic and political difficulties

After his victory at Poltava, Peter the Great built a new, Western-style city on the Baltic called

St. petersburg

In the Netherlands, tensions were always present between supporters of the staunchly republican estates and supporters of

The House of Orange

Which of the following characterizes the English Revolution of 1688?

The revolution did not constiture a democratic revolution since sovereignity was placed in the Parliament, which only represented the upper classes

The guiding force behind Cardinal Richelieu's domestic policies was

The subordination of all institutions to the monarchy

Within the Ottoman government, who staffed the top DIFF: levels of bureaucracy?

The sultan's slave corps

the baroque style flourished in the context of the

catholic reformation

Cardinal Jules Mazarins struggle to increase royal revenues to meet the cost of war led to the uprisings of 1648-53 known as the

fronde

the Ottomans divided their subjects into religious communities or

millets

Louis XIV selected councilors from the:

newly ennobled or upper middle class